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Phys. Rev. B 66, 054413 (2002) [5 pages]

Negative scaling dimensions and conformal invariance at the Nishimori point in the ±J random-bond Ising model

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Florian Merz and J. T. Chalker
Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom

Received 11 January 2002; published 13 August 2002

We reexamine the disorder-dominated multicritical point of the two-dimensional ±J-Ising model, known as the Nishimori point (NP). At the NP we investigate numerically and analytically the behavior of the disorder correlator, familiar from the self-dual description of the pure critical point of the two-dimensional Ising model. We consider the logarithmic average and the qth moments of this correlator in the ensemble average over randomness, for continuous q in the range 0<q<2.5, and demonstrate their conformal invariance. At the NP we find, in contrast to the self-dual pure critical point, that the disorder correlators exhibit multiscaling in q which is different from that of spin-spin correlators and that their scaling dimension becomes negative for q>1 and q<0. Using properties on the Nishimori line we show that the first moment (q=1) of the disorder correlator is exactly one for all separations. The spectrum of scaling dimensions at the NP is not parabolic in q.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.054413
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.054413
PACS:
05.70.Jk, 75.10.Nr, 75.40.Mg